Despite the popularity that prison education has received the recent decades, there are different approaches on how the prisoners should be treated. On one hand, there are programs, that take place in prison, and consider prisoners as ill persons that should be treated in this way in order to be healed. On the other hand, there are programs that try another approach. They try through education to change, to transform the inmates so as to have an even entry to society after their release. Critical pedagogy is an important tool that helps this approach to be conquered due to the fact that it can connect the social reality with the subject of every course and in this way it leads to a close examination of the causes that had provoked the offensive behavior. The process of every course demands a personal attachment during the class that connect each member with each other with ethical rules and emotional bonds, two important elements that lead to the empowerment of the prisoner. For that reason, critical pedagogy is a very important way of teaching that connect the ‘in’ of a person with the ‘out’, whether this means the ‘in’ of oneself with his/hers ‘out’, or the meeting of persons outside prison with inmates, helping to their integration in the society after their release and avoiding the return to prison after committing the same crime again. Furthermore, there is the opinion that the political system as it appears now and the correctional system that comes out of it, they don’t try to prevent this cycle, on the contrary, in USA they want this cycle to be continued, and for that reason, more drastic solutions are needed. The abolition movement and the emerging pedagogy, which are developing now in USA, are trying to find an alternative correctional system that will not reproduce the power relations in prison and will isolate the problematic relations between State and Prison Industrial Complex.